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I request that you immediately come to an agreement with Smilga (deputy to Bogdanov) and Avanesov concerning the appointment today to [the commi]ssion (no more than 3 members: 1 from Moscow, 1 from VSNKh, 1 from Rabkrin) with the task by Wednesday to reduce this list, leaving no more than 7 printing establishments (which are already on collective supply)

and once more r e d u c e t h e e n t i r e l i s t .

Under no circumstances can I permit these obvious—

Lenin.
1 List of enterprises and institutions being transferred to state supply.
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# NOTE TO M. I. FRUMKIN.
September 27, 1921

Comrade Frumkin!

I request that you provide me tomorrow, no later than 1 p.m., with a report on the following:

1) Was the decree approved on 6/IX discussed in the collegium? When? I request that you send an excerpt from the protocol;

2) By whom was the decree submitted to the SNK?

3) Why was it not submitted to the Polit[buro]?

Pres. of SNK V. Ulyanov (Lenin).

Lenin had in mind the decree on the production of commodity exchange, adopted in the SNK on September 6, 1921 on a report by the Centrosoyuz.
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# NOTE TO E. A. PREOBRAZHENSKII.
[October 4, 1921]

Comrade Preobrazhenskii!

Your report at the plenum on the same matter (6 or 7/X). Would it be possible to c i r c u l a t e t h e s e s t o m o r r o w , o r b e t t e r y e t : y o u r p r a c t i c a l p r o p o s a l s ?

Lenin.

Response from E. A. Preobrazhenskii:
"The theses are ready. They will be sent to all CC members tomorrow morning. The materials are too bulky. They exist in a single copy. E. Preobrazhenskii."

The matter concerns a report by E. A. Preobrazhenskii on the question of commodity exchange at the forthcoming plenum of the CC of the RCP(b). The exchange of notes took place at the SNK session on October 4, 1921.

increases.